The 2nd Theater of Operations, the General Headquarters of the Japanese Army.

Yoshihisa Fujii is very irritable, unusually irritable.

The delay in the movement of the troops made Yoshihisa Fujii, as the commander-in-chief, very annoyed.

Like General Wang's thoughts, Fujii Yoshihisa also knew how important the Northwest oil fields were to the Chinese forces. Now that they have all fought here, it can be said that one of the Achilles' heels of the Chinese troops has been exposed under their noses. At the time of the military conference, he strongly advocated a light army to advance and attack the northwest oil fields with rapid speed. With the advantage of a rapid attack, coupled with the strength of the Japanese Ninth Army, which was already fighting in the first theater of operations, the possibility of a lightning breakthrough of the 42nd Group Army of the People's Liberation Army is quite high.

Even if the battle is lost, the own side will only lose part of the territory of the second theater that has just arrived, and in general, its own side will always have the advantage.

In a war, there will always be a little risk, and whether you need to take a risk or not depends on how much of a risk you have. Obviously, the current shape is worth fighting for.

However, the conservatives clearly had the upper hand in the meeting, and in the end they were not able to get through, but were ordered to be stationed on the spot to stabilize the territory of the second theater of operations, consolidate the defenses, and prepare to attack the northwest oil fields.

Fujii Yoshihisa, who returned to the army, directly smashed his office to pieces, and the guards outside listened to the voices inside and the roar of General Fujii, and no one dared to enter for a while.

If the troops had been directly lightly armed and blitzkrieg, the 42nd Group Army of the Chinese army would not have much strength to engage in two-front operations. Well, now the rear support of the Chinese troops has arrived, and the line of defense has been contracted, and the defense zone has been established. Waiting for the battle, just waiting for himself to come to the door, the battle that could have been successful by relying on a sneak attack has now completely become a hard-fought battle.

Fujii Yoshihisa, who had calmed down, had no choice but to follow the order and be stationed on the spot. Consolidate your gains.

After more than 10 days in a row, the second theater has basically been occupied, the defense zone has been established, and if the Chinese troops want to return to the second theater, they will have to fight a tough battle.

In this way, Fujii Yoshihisa's troops could set off as a whole and head to the first theater of operations.

On the Japanese side, the Ninth Army, which was on the front, suffered considerable losses because it had been fighting against the 42nd Army of the People's Liberation Army before. Now that the inventory has been counted, there are only about 20,000 people left, and even if some soldiers are added to the rear, the combat force will only be 30,000 when it is full.

Relying on these people, whether it is the southern theater or the northern theater, they will not be able to fight. The attackers are not as numerous as the defenders, and this battle is simply too difficult to fight, and the top is not stupid enough to fight more with less. And also when the other party is familiar with the terrain.

However, the Northwest Oilfield must be won, so increasing staff has become the only way. The troops on Yoshihisa Fujii's side. Naturally, it became a support force to provide combat effectiveness.

There is already a very clear order in the battle plan, the direction of his main attack is the southern defense line, and the Ninth Army is mainly responsible for the northern defense line, but he will allocate a part of his forces to support the northern defense line, otherwise he will rely on the current combat strength of the Ninth Army. It is very difficult to defeat the northern defense line, and it is even possible that the opponent will pounce on and cripple it, which is naturally unacceptable to the general command.

The number of troops in the second theater is relatively large. Originally, Yoshihisa Fujii had the 16th Mechanic Division and the 22nd Armored Division of the Japanese Army. The 54th Fighter Wing, the 101st Infantry Wing, the 39th Infantry Division and the infantry units of the 1st Army. These are all trump card units in the attack on the second theater of operations, and their combat effectiveness cannot be measured by ordinary combat units. After that, he needed to attack the first theater of operations to support the Ninth Army, and at the same time, he also needed to leave enough troops to garrison the second theater, and then he needed to support the forces of two more corps.

Now the combat power that Fujii Yoshihisa can directly use in his hands has exceeded 170,000 combined.

This is definitely the number of defenders who crushed the Chinese troops!

However, he needs to leave a corps of troops to garrison the second theater. You must know that the Chinese troops in the west are eyeing this place, and there are a lot of troops, leaving tens of thousands of people, and they will lose this land again in less than a week, so the troops left here need at least 30,000 people, and he has the bottom in his heart.

As for the support forces...... Yoshihisa Fujii has been thinking about this for a long time.

How many troops should I support?

If there is less, it will lead to the defeat of the northern front, and it will also bear part of the responsibility, and if there is more, its southern front will become overstretched. At this level, Fujii Zen couldn't catch it for a long time, and because of this reason, the troops pressed in the second theater for two more days.

The terrain on the northern front is complex, and the Chinese forces will almost certainly blow up all the roads they can get to, so tanks, armored vehicles, and other vehicles will be of little use here. Rather than this, it is better to leave all the mechanical units to fight on the southern front and concentrate firepower, perhaps more effectively.

Helicopter Support ...... There is no suitable airfield to stop there, and some support is possible, but because there is no space, it is impossible to send a large number of air force support, at most bomber support when needed, or fighter planes and helicopters to attack the attack...... I still keep it.

However, the artillery must be supported, and it is impossible for them to send only infantry units, so that in addition to the increase in troops, it will have no impact on the battle situation, and even if the heavy firepower is less, the Chinese troops will seize the weakness and beat it badly.

In the end, he gave the order.

60,000 infantry units were sent to support the northern front, as well as 10,000 artillery units, while there was also a squadron of fighters and a squadron of bombers at his air base waiting for orders. Together with the Ninth Army's own forces, there were more than 100,000 Japanese troops fighting on the northern front.

100,000 troops, attacking the defensive line of one army group and one first-tier city, and three second-tier cities, should not be too much of a problem.

On his side, 30,000 troops were left to garrison the second theater, and a total of 70,000 troops were left to attack the southern front. According to intelligence, only the 42nd Army held on to the southern front, and the number of its own troops was more than twice that of theirs, and even if the resistance encountered was strong, its chances of winning were quite large.

After making arrangements, the support troops were ready within three days, and they set off with weapons, baggage, and supplies, and went to the First Theater to make peace with the Ninth Army.

At the same time, the Ninth Army had also been assembled and marched to the front. The battle between the two sides is about to break out, but now both sides do not have a clear information on the accurate strength of their opponents, so neither the Chinese troops nor the Japanese troops will lightly contact and exchange fire, but the atmosphere of the big war has gradually begun to shroud the sky over the first theater.

On the Chinese side, after several days of overnight work, the defensive line has been established according to the plan, and all the troops have entered the defensive position, waiting for the Japanese troops to appear in front of them.

Fujii Yoshihisa also began to move, and while supporting the departure of the troops, he also released several reconnaissance teams to go to the front line to spy on the military situation. And he and the remaining troops attacking the southern defense line were also drawn a day later, and went to the predetermined target area to station and establish a base.

The Ninth Army, the commander-in-chief of the Aoki Army, seemed very relaxed. However, in the occasional eyebrows, you can also see some unpleasant feelings hanging on your face.

The battle between himself and the 42nd Group Army of the People's Liberation Army can basically be said to be nothing thrilling, although there are mutual victories and defeats, but his own winning side is the majority, which makes Aoki Jin's superiority psychology increasingly high. In his opinion, if it weren't for Fujii Yoshihisa in the second war zone who won the second war zone one step ahead of him, maybe the first to taste the fruits of victory would be himself.

Aoki Jin was not originally a high-level officer, before the start of the bullet world, he was just a deputy company commander of an ordinary army, and the service period was about to end, if nothing else, at the end of the service period, he would retire.

It seems that God seems to favor him quite a lot, after the bullet world is served, the border of the Japanese area is the same as the Chinese area, basically there are continuous small battles, and occasionally there will be major battles at the division level. During this period, Aoki Jin led his troops to perform many miraculous feats, and it didn't take long for his deputy company commander's hat to remove the word "deputy".

became a company commander, and his troops became more like a fish in water, and even once relied on company-level troops to defeat the strength of two enemy battalions, so that the Japanese command and senior management began to pay attention to his survival.

Although there were not a few people left in his troops in that battle, it was such a combat power, and it was not something that ordinary troops could have.

Since then, Shin Aoki has hardly lost a battle. In the war years, to be precise, in the war world, military merit can be said to be the best time, Aoki Jin is a person who seized the opportunity, and in a short period of time, he was promoted to the commander of the division commander.

After the war with the Chinese troops, Aoki's luck seemed to have decreased slightly, and he did not fight any more big victories, but he still won small victories, and little by little the territory of the Chinese troops was encroaching on the territory of the Chinese troops, but the speed was a little slower.

The fighting in the southern part of China was quite erosive, and many generals had been relieved of their military duties, and some were even court-martialed. In contrast, although Aoki's results are small, they have always been rewarded, and compared with these removed commanders, it is a heaven and an earth. (To be continued......)